Definition of Behavior

1.n. Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.

Definition of Behavior

1. Noun. The way a living creature behaves or acts. ¹

2. Noun. The way a device or system operates. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Behavior

Medical Definition of Behavior

1.
Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. "A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior." (Steele) To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct. During good behavior, while (or so long as) one conducts one's self with integrity and fidelity or with propriety.
Synonym: Bearing, demeanor, manner.
Behavior, Conduct. Behavior is the mode in which we have or bear ourselves in the presence of others or toward them; conduct is the mode of our carrying ourselves forward in the concerns of life. Behavior respects our manner of acting in particular cases; conduct refers to the general tenor of our actions. We may say of soldiers, that their conduct had been praiseworthy during the whole campaign, and their behavior admirable in every instance when they met the enemy.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Behavior

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)"REVIEWS OF BOOKS Human behavior, in Us Relation to the Study of Educational, ...
The need of a study of human behavior more inclusive than has been ..."

2.Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)"Suppose we note how these minor units of behavior are connected together into
larger systems of action. We see that the walking, grasping, hitting, ..."

3.Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)"Such a chain of cooperating acts shows that a high level of evolution of behavior
has been reached where single elements of behavior are united into complex ..."

4.Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)"There are at least three valuable points of view from which the behavior of man
may be studied : the psychological ; the physiological; ..."

5.Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)"Correlates of Adolescent Smoking behavior Evaluations of interventions before
the mid-1970s suggested that these approaches were insufficient for several ..."

6.Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)"CHAPTER VIII RESPONSES TO THE behavior OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS: IMITATION Imitation
is a word of too many different meanings to be used without qualifications ..."

8.Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1917)"Psychiatrists have observed certain type responses or behavior patterns and have
... But these types of behavior are seen to be common in some de- 'Thc ..."